2016-06-26

Question 1

ほしい usually followsが、in negative sentences, the particle は is also used.
I don’t have much desire for money.

Answer 1

お金はあまり欲しくないです。

Question 2

when you say you are making an observation of a person feeling a private-predicate sensation, use verbたがる to replace たい.
(I understand that) Tomoko wants to study English

Answer 2

智子さんは英語を習いたがっています。ならう

Question 3

ほしい has a special verb counterpart　ほしがる. It conjugates as an u-verb. The particle after the object of desire is を.
(I understand that) Tom wants a friend.

Answer 3

トムさんは友達をほしがっています。

Question 4

かもしれない/かもしれません is placed after the short forms of predicates, in the affirmative and in the negative, present and past tense.
It may rain tomorrow

Answer 4

明日雨が降るかもしれません。

Question 5

Suzuki is perhaps taller than Tanaka.

Answer 5

鈴木さんのほうが田中さんより背が高いかもしれません。

Question 6

The weather may not be good tomorrow.

Answer 6

明日の天気は良くないかもしれません。

Question 7

Tom may have been a bully when he was a kid.

Answer 7

トムさんは、子供の時、いじわるだったかもしれません。

Question 8

just likeでしょう, かもしれません goes directly after a noun or a na-adj in the present tense affirmative sentences. だ is dropped in these sentences.
Tom might be a Canadian.

Answer 8

トマさんはカナダ人かもしれません。

Question 9

He may not like dogs.

Answer 9

彼は犬が嫌いかもしれません。

Question 10

when a thing moves away from the centre, the transaction is あげる、when a thing moves toward the centre, the verb is くれる。with both verbs, the giver is the subject of the sentence, and is accompanied by the particle は or が。 the recipient is accompanied by the particleに。

Answer 10

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Question 11

my parents may give me a new car.

Answer 11

両親が私に新しい車をくれるかもしれません。

Question 12

transactions which are described withくれる can also be described by もらう. with もらる it is the recipient that is the subject of the sentence, with は orが, and the giver is followed by に or から。
i received an old dictionary from my big sister.

Answer 12

姉に（から）古い辞書（じしょ）をもらいました。